Record ID: ESS-B2578A
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
A Post Medieval gold memento mori ring, dating to around the year AD1680. The object is D-shaped and inscribed on the internal surface with a skull engraved on the outer surface. The inscription reads: S : C : ob : 17 : March : 80 - [initials] died 17th March 1680. There is also a maker's stamp which appears to be a letter P. Judy Rudoe at the British Museum notes that when the first two numbers are omitted in the inscriptions on memento mori rings, the date is 17th century. Thus the coin was produced upon the death of an individual in AD1680.
Created on: Wednesday 10th February 2016
Last updated: Tuesday 14th August 2018
No spatial data available.

Record ID: DENO-E46AEC
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure Number: 2016 T15 Period: 17th- 18th century Finder: Stephen Blower Date of Discovery: 15/11/2015 Description: Gold posy ring with a very thin small hoop with a D-shaped cross-section. Lower case Inscription 'Vertue Joyne with love', has much of the original black enamel. Dimensions: Thickness: 2.2 mm, Weight: 1.3 g, Diameter: 18.6 mm Conclusion: In the absence of an identifiable maker's mark this ring cannot be securely dated to pre-1716 and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996. Author: Judy Rudoe, Britain, Europe and Prehistory.
Created on: Thursday 7th January 2016
Last updated: Monday 14th August 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BH-057A58
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Oxfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete gold post-medieval 'posy ring' (or poem ring), made from a thin plain hoop inscribed on the inner band in lower case with the phrase 'in Christ and thee my comfort be'. There is also stamped maker's mark bearing the initials 'RD' in black letter script but the mark cannot be identified, however the lettering is consistent with a date in the late 17th Century or early years of the 18th Century AD.
Created on: Thursday 3rd December 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Lew', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-838EF3
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Central Bedfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: silver finger ring, a broad band inscribed on the exterior I LIVE IN HOPE between bands of ornament Dimensions: Diameter: 20.10mm Width: 7.84mm Thickness: 1.31mm Weight: 3g Discussion: A standard type of the 16th to first half of the 17th Century. Conclusion: Consequently in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10 % precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996
Created on: Friday 27th November 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Streatley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: YORYM-0CDDB9
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: York
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
TREASURE CASE : 2015 T811. A complete gold finger ring of late seventeenth to early eighteenth century date circa AD 1660 - 1730. The hoop is circular with a hollow D-shaped section and openwork ornamented decoration on the exterior surface. The decoration is in the form of floral and foliate decoration with incised detail between each open area. A stamped maker's mark is present on the inner face of the hoop consisting of the single letter "C". Dimensions: Diameter: 20.2mm; Width: 3.9mm; Thickness: 1.9mm; Weight: 1.4g. Discussion: Judy Rudoe, commented that this is a s…
Created on: Wednesday 28th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 10th January 2017
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: CORN-F7AEA0
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cornwall
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with a plain band or hoop, D-shaped in section with a flat inner side. There is an incised inscription running around most of the inside of the hoop. It reads 'Constant am I untill I die ', and all the letters are in lower case italics, apart from an initial upper case letter 'C' of Constant and the upper case 'I'. The long 's' in 'ConStant' is more like an 'f '' and this style of 's' stopped being used in about 1780 (http://www.oxforddictionaries.com/words/why-f-instead-of-s-in-old-fashioned-spellings). The inscription terminates in a stamped maker's mark 'J C' in Goth…
Created on: Tuesday 27th October 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 3rd November 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Sennen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-E1966D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Post-medieval gold posy ring dating 1697 to 1715 AD. The ring is a simple gold posy ring circular in plan and D-shaped in section with a wide band, a plain exterior and inscribed inside with a brief sentiment that is difficult to decipher. The legend is possibly *VERT MERITS FOREVER* vert being short for virtue it would therefore translate as virtue keeps us forever. The language used in many early posy rings was Norman French, with French, Latin and English used in later times. There is also a maker's mark detailed as EG. There is no ring with this maker's mark in the British Museum,…
Created on: Monday 26th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Grizebeck', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-6122A2
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Description: Gold finger ring with engraved decoration on the shoulders and box bezel containing a stone (or glass stone) with remains of pale blue enamel on sides of bezel and on shoulders Dimensions: Diameter: 18.5 mm Width: 17.6 mm Weight: 1.76 g Discussion: The form and decoration corresponds to standard types of c. 1670-1720 Conclusion: Consequently, in terms of age and as the object contains a minimum of 10% precious metal it qualifies as Treasure under the stipulations of the Treasure Act 1996.
Created on: Tuesday 20th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 16th April 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Codicote', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-4DD680
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MEDIEVAL
County: Warrington
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold 14th century AD finger-ring with an inset cobalt-blue glass oval setting. The bezel has 7 convex settings to hold the stone and a decorated flower inscribed into an integral square plate on either side of the hoop. There is no makers mark and the construction would suggest the 14th or 15th century at the latest. Non-destructive X-ray fluorescence analysis of the metal by the British Museum's Scientific Research section indicated a surface composition of approximately 94-95% gold, 3-4% silver, the rest being copper. The setting was identified as cobalt-blue glass. The length…
Created on: Monday 19th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 9th April 2018
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: SWYOR-F68B49
Object type: DRESS FASTENER (DRESS)
Broad period: MODERN
County: Nottinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A Modern collar button, shirt stud or cufflink dating from about AD 1700 - 2000. It is a silver setting with a cabochon gem, probably green onyx. The yellow green gem is domed, and is oval in plan. It is set in a band of silver with eight vertical thickened ribs. An engraved line round the base of the setting divides the side from the back of the front component. A very short central shank projects from the centre of the reverse of the gem setting, and links it to a flat silver oval backplate. No maker's marks or hallmarks are visible. The dress fitting is 13.3mm long, 11.6mm wide and…
Created on: Thursday 15th October 2015
Last updated: Monday 11th April 2016
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Blyth', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: SWYOR-585CD7
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Leeds
Workflow stage: Published
A sixteenth century gold signet finger ring with a glass or rock crystal setting in the oval bezel which is orientated vertically. The gem is engraved for use as a seal matrix with a five petalled flower with two leaves on a shield with a biconcave top, concave upper sides and a pointed base. Behind the gem, the bezel is also decorated with black enamel leaving gold the date 1562 above the shield and the initials C X or C K, one letter at each side of the shield. The outer sides of the bezel are decorated with a row of beading flanked by an engraved line above and below. There are sli…
Created on: Tuesday 1st September 2015
Last updated: Wednesday 8th May 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Thorp Arch', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HAMP-5E4DB8
Object type: SEAL MATRIX
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hampshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
An incomplete silver seal matrix depicting (probably) a stylised representation of Queen Anne who reigned from 1702-14. The object has an oval matrix with a groove flanking the outside edge and depicts a female bust at the centre. To the reverse is an oval platform from which rises a rectangular-sectioned handle (11x8mm), narrowing to a 5.5x3.5mm waist before expanding again to 7.5x4.9mm. Here it meets an inversion of itself, narrowing to a recent-ish break measuring 3.8x2.3mm. The seal matrix survives to a height of 14.7mm and weighs 8.52g. The matrix itself measures 18.8x17.1x2.5mm.
Created on: Thursday 20th August 2015
Last updated: Friday 19th January 2018
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Exton', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: HESH-8FFB6D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Shropshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A gold finger ring / 'posie ring'/ 'posy ring' with an incised inscription on the interior face and chased and moulded decoration on the exterior dated to the later post medieval period (c. 1650-1750 AD). The finger-ring is formed from a very slight (narrow) D shaped section hoop of gold, originally being circular in plan now a crushed and distorted oval. The exterior of the ring is neatly decorated with evenly spaced hearts, clasped hands and foliate scrolls. The internal surface of the band has an incised inscription in a loose italic hand. It reads: 'Tho lettil accept it '. The let…
Created on: Wednesday 29th July 2015
Last updated: Tuesday 19th November 2019
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Ludlow', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: ESS-9AEB6C
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
Workflow stage: Published
Gold finger-ring with a D shaped hollow hoop. The interior is damaged which allows one to see the construction. The ring is otherwise completely plane and without any features that would enable one to date it, so it remains undiagnostic.
Created on: Monday 18th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 21st April 2016
No spatial data available.

Record ID: BH-472052
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: MODERN
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver finger-ring fragment with a thin flat shaped hoop. The outside has engraved decoration. Length: 17.68 mm; Width: 6.67 mm; Thickness: 0.59 mm. Weight: 2.1 g This ring dates probably from the second half of the 19th Century and as such falls outside the provisions of the Treasure Act 1996. Judy Rudoe.
Created on: Thursday 14th May 2015
Last updated: Friday 18th December 2015
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Haddenham', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: BH-8C11EE
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Hertfordshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Gold posy ring with a thin flat hoop edges slightly damaged and a plain exterior. Inscription inside reads in lower case "In thy sight is my delight". Partly legible makers mark in rectangular shield of which one letter may be a C or a D. Dimensions: Diameter (max):19.99 mm Width: 2.78 mm Thickness: 0.66 mm Weight: 3.4 g Discussion: In the absence of an identifiable makers mark it is not possible to confirm that this ring is prior to 1715. Conclusion: Due to the undiagnostic nature of the find it cannot be securely dated to pre-1715 and as such …
Created on: Tuesday 5th May 2015
Last updated: Thursday 16th April 2020
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Barley', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: LANCUM-7DD4A1
Object type: BRACELET
Broad period: MODERN
County: Cumbria
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
Silver bracelet made up of a number of small hollow silver links with small droplet pendants. handed in as potential TReasure, but was dated modern, that is Gerogian or Victorian, 19th century.
Created on: Friday 10th April 2015
Last updated: Friday 30th June 2017
Spatial data recorded. This findspot is known as 'Kirkby Stephen', grid reference and parish protected.

Record ID: DEV-CF1033
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Devon
Workflow stage: Published
Treasure case: 2015 T111; returned to finder having been disclaimed as Treasure. A Post-Medieval silver posy ring. The outside of the hoop is undecorated. The inside of the hoop bears the upper-case inscription 'LET LOVE = INCREAS'. Traces of gilding remain on the inside of the hoop. Dimensions: Weight: 2.31 g Diameter: 22.49 mm Thickness: 1.08 mm Discussion: This inscription can also be seen on a silver posy ring in the British Museum's collection (1961, 1202. 255). The upper-case lettering on this finger-ring assists in dating it to the 16th to 17th century.
Created on: Thursday 12th February 2015
Last updated: Friday 17th April 2020
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: YORYM-EABD4D
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: East Riding of Yorkshire
Workflow stage: Published
A silver finger-ring of roughly D-shaped cross-section. The interior of the band is smooth and the exterior has heavily worn engravings. Each shoulder is decorated with four closely spaced hatched lines on either side, projecting downwards (away from the bezel). Further along the hoop are smaller, fainter hatched lines, projecting upwards. The bezel features a series of line that may be a crude monogram of several letters on top of one another, framed on either side by a transverse line from which emanate four short chips, and outside of this another line from which emanates a sunburs…
Created on: Monday 15th December 2014
Last updated: Thursday 13th October 2016
Spatial data recorded.

Record ID: BERK-C80D36
Object type: FINGER RING
Broad period: POST MEDIEVAL
County: Buckinghamshire
Workflow stage: Awaiting validation
A complete but disorted gold 'posy' finger ring of post-medieval date. The finger ring has a thin D-sectioned band, plain on the external surface and with an inscription internally that reads 'Honoured for thy vertue' [sic]. This is followed by a makers mark, a monogram of WM in an oval field (this is located at the bend in the ring and is difficult to photograph). The finger ring is similar to an example in Oman (1974) plate 58, 1650 - 1700, and also examples in Grimwade (1982) from 1703 and 1705, although none are an exact likeness and no record of this maker's mark could be found i…
Created on: Monday 1st December 2014
Last updated: Tuesday 2nd December 2014
Spatial data recorded.